Halo Wars Latest News - Xbox 360

Game Description:Experience the battles that started it all in this combat-strategy saga that unfolds in the storied universe of Halo. Set in the time before the original Halo first-person shooter, Halo Wars begins aboard a ship, the Spirit of Fire, retrofitted for UNSC military use. Lead legions of UNSC soldiers, Scorpions, Warthogs, and more into combat as you experience the first battles in the war against the Covenant. Choose the right leaders to carry out your battlefield strategy, move units, command troops, attack, counterattack, and crush your opponents in large-scale Halo battles. Online multiplayer battles let up to six commanders match wits using UNSC or Covenant forces.

Halo Wars News

Ensemble Studios' unloads another wave of screenshots for their company finale RTS project Halo Wars. Will their swan song live up to all the hype? You'll find out come Feb 26th (Asia), Feb 27th (EU, Middle East, Africa) or March 3rd (North America) when the game makes landfall on the Xbox 360.
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Halo Wars, the real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios and Microsoft, will be hitting the Xbox 360 on March 3, 2009. The game, which Ensemble believes will exemplify console RTS controls, will be available in both a standard edition and collector's edition.
The $80 collector's edition will feature bonus content for Halo 3 in the form of...

One of the big concerns about Halo Wars is its controls. There have been tons of clunky real-time strategy games for consoles, due to the genre being established for the PC and developers having difficulty translating elegant controls to a console's game pad. Gamasutra interviewed lead designer Graeme Devine and campaign producer Bill Jackson....

Ensemble's Graeme Devine insists emphatically that Halo Wars is not going to be released on PC.
"Zero. Never. I'm going to go on the record and say never ever! Microsoft may go and announce it, but I'll say never."
OK, we heard it from the horse's mouth. "Halo Wars is a console game, and it was designed to work on a console....

Halo Wars is going to be hitting shelves in February 2009 and like anything Halo... it will be getting some premium Collector's Edition content.
For $79.99, gamers can pick up the Halo Wars Collector's Edition, which includes:
Three New “Halo 3” Multiplayer Maps – Be one of the first to experience the Mythic Map Pack from...

If you missed tonight's X-Play Gaming Update for shame on you! Don't fret, we got you covered. In this edition Morgan Webb goes into new Halo Wars details, multiple EA sequels in the works, and quite possibly one of the greatest user-created LittleBigPlanet levels to date.
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Ensemble Studios' Lead Game Developer Graeme Devine, (Quake III Arena, The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour) walks us through the gameplay of their exclusive Xbox 360 RTS Halo Wars in the following video. Additionally, "The Flood" have been revealed along with a devastating attack called the "Cryo Bomb".
While the game is still set...

We're here at the Tokyo Game Show 2008, and it's time to see what Microsoft has up their sleeve, as they are prepared to give us a keynote and announce some new stuff while they do it.
12:03 PM - The Last Remnant trailer. We meet the principals, the graphics are kind of awesome, there's some gameplay footage that looks medieval and futuristic...

Following up the "Five Long Years" revealed at E3, this brand new "Field Trip to Harvest" cinematic for Ensemble Studios' Halo Wars offers up some new details of the sci-fi RTS. Get a first look at the main cast of the UNSC forces as they make their approach on a Covenant gathering planetside.
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Stuart Beattie, more recently known as the man who penned Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, loves Halo so much that in his free time he wrote a script adapted from the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach. This much we knew already. Recently, Beattie mentioned that he is in talks with Microsoft about getting his movie made, and...

It's always a sad day whenever a video game development studio has to close up shop, but the recent announcement of Ensemble Studios' shut down has hit Adam especially hard. Ensemble has recently gained attention for their development of Halo Wars, but they were also the team behind the revolutionary RTS franchise, Age of Empires.
For those of...

Update: Videogaming247 pointed out a gallery full of concept images from the Halo MMO project via Flickr.
Ensemble Studios, developers of the upcoming 360 RTS Halo Wars, has recently canceled an MMO project involving Master Chief's universe, according to Gamasutra's report. The studio's decision to pull the Halo MMO was due to the fact that...

Microsoft has confirmed that the studio behind the RTS hit Age of Empires will be shutting down once they complete their latest project for the Xbox 360, Halo Wars. Citing "fiscally-rooted" decisions, Microsoft plans to form a new studio with the core employees from Ensemble Studios to create new projects.
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The studio behind the Age of Empire RTS series may shut down after the completion of its latest Xbox 360 project, Halo Wars, according to a rumor reported by Shack News.
The report states that several employees from Ensemble Studios that were not involved in the Halo Wars project were laid off today by the company, and incentives were offered...